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- A. T. SGHLIGHTING & J. SMITH.

FRUIT JAR.

N0. 423;703. Patented Mar. '18, 1890.

I N. PETERS Pholo-ulhcgnphur, Wammkinn. D. Q 1

f UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.ALB ERT T. SOHLIOHTING AND JULIUS SMITH, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNORS OFTHREE-FIFTHS TO ADOLPH KERN, OF NEl/V YORK, N. Y.

FRUIT-JAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,703, dated March18, 1890.

Application filed July 31, 1889. Serial No- 3l9,317. (N model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ALBERT T. Sonmcrrr- ING and JULIUS SMITH, both ofBrooklyn, Kings county, New York, citizens of the United States, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fruit-Jars, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of our invention is to provide a new and improved fruit-jarwhich is simple n construction, can readily be opened and closed, formsan absolutely tight seal, and the contents of which can under nocircumstances be contaminated by coming in contact with metal.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts anddetails, as will be fully described and set forth hereinafter, andthenpointed out in the claim.

-In the accompanying drawings,-Figure 1 is a vertical transversesectional view of our improved fruit/jar, parts of the jar beingis madeof porcelain or glass andis provided at the bottom of its edge with adownwardly and inwardly beveled annular shoulder E and with a raised rimF, having a flat annular top. The said inner cover is also provided witha handle-button G, projecting upward from thecenter of the top recess insaid cover. The outer sheet-metal cover H is provided withascrew-threaded flange J, that can be screwed on the threaded neck B ofthe jar.

. On the under side of the said sheet-metal outer cover H an annulardownwardly-projecting bead K is formed, which can bear on the upper flatedge of the raised annular rim F of the inner cover D.

After the jar has been filled a packing-ring or gasket L, ofindia-rubber, is placed upon the beveled shoulder C of the jar, and theinner porcelain cover D is placed into the neck of the jar in such amanner that the when filling or emptying the jar, and thus all danger ofcontaminating the contents of the jar is avoided. The covers can beapplied or removed very easily and rapidly, andthe gasket is notsubjected .to any twisting strain While screwing on the metal. cover, asit is in fruit jarsinwhich the gasketis placed between the surface ofthe jar and a flange of said cover.

We are aware that interior porcelain or glass covers and exterior metalcovers and packing-rings have been used on fruit-jars,

,and do not claim this, broadly, as our invention; but,

Having fully described our-invention, what we claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-- The combination, with a fruit-jarhaving an externallyscrew-threaded neck and a downwardly and inwardlybeveled interior annular shoulder at the bottom of the neck, of aninterior porcelain cover provided with an annular bevel at the bottom ofits edge and an upwardly-projectingrim having a flat top, a metalscrew-cover adapted to be screwed on the neck of the jar and provided onits under side with .an annular projection which presses on the raisedrim of the inner cover, and a gasket between the inner cover and jar,substantially as herein shown and described.v p

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have signedour' names in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

.ALBERT T. SOHLIOHTING.

JULIUS SMITH. \Vitnesses:

ERNEST GRENING, JOHN E. BAILLY.

